Born in Argentina and raised in London, Malena Zavala earned critical plaudits for the DIY bedroom pop of her 2018 debut album Aliso. Her 2022 follow-up effort La Yarará found the singer-songwriter exploring her roots across a variety of Latin American styles.
This third album returns to the guitar pop of that first salvo but with a more mature, fleshed-out sound. While South America is still an ongoing inspiration in her work, here its influence is more thematic. Inspired by a road trip from Chile down to Patagonia in Argentina, the music has a softly melancholic tone.
The spare guitars and echoed vocals of ‘Only Thing That’s Right’ and ‘Lost in the Depths of the Andes’ are enlivened by the lusciousness…

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